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Presented by Tony Lewis It's the half-way stage of the Coral UK Snooker
Championship. How has reigning champion Terry Griffiths fared at the Guildhall, Preston, this week?
Newbury stages the first major race of the National Hunt Season, the Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup. Plus the issues making the headlines.
Producer EMILY MCMAHON

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by Lester Powell
Fred, recently retired, and Teresa move into a new West Country home, but from the start they suffer inexplicable power failures as well as a strange sweet smell in their drawing room. It is rumoured that a new nerve gas is being manufactured locally.
BBC Bristol

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A series of 12 programmes
9:Families in Faith- Control or Freedom? Arranged marriages, contraception, the upbringing of children - the whole of family life is influenced by religion. John Bowker listens as a young Hindu couple describe how their marriage was arranged - and how it worked out in practice.
Producer DAVID CRAIG
BBC Manchester

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Arson in Berlin by ALLEN SADDLER
27 February 1933: a pane of glass shatters in the parliament building, the Reichstag. Within seconds flames emerge and a case of arson is apprehended. But who is guilty? Was it a Communist conspiracy as the German government urged throughout the long show trial of Bulgarians
Dimitrov, Tanev, Popov and the mysterious Dutchman?
Directed by ALEC REID BBC Bristol

Visually stunning
(THE TIMES)
Often seems just crass ... clumsy
(THE GUARDIAN)
Puzzling mixture of literalness and bleak, ineffective abstraction
(NEW YORKER)
The Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelungen, staged by Sir Peter Hall with designs by William Dudley and conducted by Sir Georg Solti , was one of the most eagerly-awaited events in this year's operatic calendar. This new production, to mark the 100th anniversary of Wagner's death, was to be a ' romantic ' staging which remained faithful to Wagner's text.
Paul Vaughan talked to some of those involved in this production, plagued by technical problems and cast changes which perplexed the critics and the Bayreuth audience.
Producer BRIAN BARFIELD (A revised Kaleidoscope repeat)
(The Ring is on Radio 3 tomorrow at 3.0 pm)

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One hundred and fifty years after Wilberforce. every government in the world sets its public face against slavery. The last to outlaw the chains was the tiny African state of Mauritania ... but that was only three years ago. Today, human rights campaigners are no less anxious about the millions of victims of forced labour than were their 19th-century predecessors concerned about legal slaves, because as the Secretary General of the Commonwealth says. there is still ' an unbroken line of servitude '.
Adam Raphael investigates examples of debt-bondage, child labour, serfdom, women sold into prostitution and men press-ganged into sweated-labour camps.
Producer JOCK GALLAGHER
BBC Birmingham

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